In you have an existing theme however and you want it to have a specialize function or feature, you can also do so without necessarily changing your theme. There are a lot of plugins around that you can install to extend the power of your theme like never before. Again like WordPress themes, WordPress plugins are coded to meet specific needs and there are lot of them available for free now.

In this article, we are showcasing some of the restaurant WordPress plugins that you can use to add restaurant functionalities to your default themes. All of these are free so you can avail all of them without spending. Check these out and enjoy!

Tired of using PDFs to post your restaurant’s menus online? Easy Restaurant Menu Manager makes it simple to add and update all your dishes in a way that’s easy for your site’s visitors to read and easy for you to maintain. You can add categories like appetizers, entrees or desserts — name them whatever you want — and set the order those categories should display in. Include a description for each item, and decide whether or not you want to display the price. Want to tweak the display? Add CSS right from the plugin, without fiddling with theme files. This plugin isn’t just for restaurants. Spas, service stations and others can use it to share their menu of services. – Free Plugin

This plugin allows you to easily create posts that are based on your OpenMenu and thus embedding restaurant menus in any WordPress website. This plugin fully integrates an OpenMenu or OpenMenus into an existing theme. Widget / Menu ready themes work best. – Free Plugin

The online restaurant ordering system for small to large businesses. More and more people are going online to search for food in their area rather then using the yellow pages. JS Restaurant WordPress plugin is the perfect online solution for those restaurants,with table reservation system and menus management,where customers can place orders. Our script is addressed to the restaurants owners but it also can be used for other products such as bars, equipment etc. The JS-Restaurant wordpress plugin has been tested on WordPress ver 3.2.1. and WordPress 3.3. – by CodeCanyon (Premium Plugin)

This WordPress plugin allows administrators to quickly create menus, sub-menus, and add food items, descriptions, prices and special prices to these items. WordPress Restaurant Menu is perfect for small to large restaurant websites that want to display a menu to their website visitors. This menu is perfect for sandwich shops wanting to offer special prices on items for a limited time or any restaurant running a special or price promotion on their menu for any number of items. The back end is easy to use, allows the creation of multiple menus, dozens of sub-menus and dozens of items. For instance, create a dinner menu with a section for steaks that features porterhouse, rib-eye or any number of steak dinners. Pair that with a wine menu and your site is ready to showcase your restaurant or eatery. – by CodeCanyon (Premium Plugin)

The Walk Score plugin provides a shortcode so you can embed neighborhood maps in your posts and pages. With the interactive map your visitors can create a Commute Report showing drive times to work to that location, explore lists of amenities by category (schools,restaurants, coffee shops, etc). The map displays a Google map by default, but offers your visitors options to use Street View (Google), Bird’s Eye view (Bing), a walkability heat map and a 15-minute walkability zone (walkshed). – Free Plugin

Zuppler Online Ordering Plugin lets customers order food online directly from a restaurant’s website, for takeout, delivery, dine-in and catering. Zuppler’s state of the art online ordering technology can be customized to match the brand, look and feel of the restaurant website. Customers stay on the restaurant website during the entire online ordering process. – Free Plugin

This wordpress appointment and event calendar plugin is an easy-to-use tool to create and administer appointment requests. It is ideally suited to businesses that run daily appointments like doctors or hair stylists, beauty salon or restaurant reservation.

BookingBug is a highly flexible and customizable booking system for use by any business. It is designed to help you get new customers by letting you get your time and availability on to your own and as many sites as possible. Hosted on BookingBug, you can embed it in your wordpress blog quickly and easily, as well as embedding in Facebook or other sites you may need. You can even embed it multiple times in different pages in your site if you need. – Free Plugin

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Hello,
I am looking for a script to book a table from a floor plan. The customer clicks on the table that would like to book, complete the form and then the table would display “complete” on the plan. Do you know if this type of plugin exists?